Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

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Bookhampton has a highly curated selection of books for readers of all ages, unique,of-a-kind gifts and exciting author events browse their fabulous staff suggestions online at bookhampton dot com so welcome to jennifer and jason to mom's don't have time to read books thanks for having us i was just saying to them this is like my first threesome podcast, which is so fitting since their whole book is like about sex. So Mr. Nice Guy, your book was fantastic. I couldn't put it down. I read it all in like two days. Thank you so much. Yeah. It was really, really good. And I saw on the book where people said, oh, it's a page turner. And I'm like, is it really when people say that? But it really was. So I was delighted. Yeah, you know, what's funny about that, we had the two blurbs on the cover. I didn't realize until the book was actually published that they both say basically the same thing. Like, they have the same language, which is like, I couldn't put it down or whatever it is, it's very similar, which as an editor drives me crazy because I spent a lot of time

taking out word repetitions, but there it is.

Well, it hammered home the point.

And then it lived up to it.

Yeah, that's good.

It would have been even worse, had it not, in this instance, with the two quotes.

So how did you come up with the idea for this book?

And just tell listeners generally what it's about. Okay, so I'll explain what it's about and then Jason can take it from

there. So Mr. Nice Guy, it is a romantic comedy about two people who every week sleep together

and then critically review each other's performance in a magazine. It's set in the world of New York Magazine publishing,

which is a world that Jason and I know very well. We've been magazine and newspaper writers for

really long time. And we really drew a lot from our experiences, kind of dating and also working

in the city. We are now married, just to make that clear. But Jason,

do you want to talk about where the idea came from? Yeah, so the idea came from me in my 20s.

I was probably like a newspaper reporter at the time, community and a newspaper reporter,

and I got an email one day from this then internet famous sex columnist.

She had just graduated college. She had people knew who she was back then. I don't think they

do now. And I did. And she was just looking for freelance writing advice. She had seen my name

show up in a number of publications and decided to reach out. And I was very happy to be in touch

with her. It was kind of cool. And so we traded

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